Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 wife Peg free thursday september 1 1983 lebanese militiamen accused of butchery Beirut a the trolled voice of Lebanon radio said today that leftist druse militiamen 46 Christian villagers in retaliation for a lebanese army sweep of moslem shiite and druse militia strongholds in West the allegation came As the lebanese army mopped up scattered pockets of militia resistance in West Beirut after the which the government viewed As a crucial test of its the voice of operated by the Christian phalanges said the horrible massacre to blk place in the Village of in the trolled upper men mountains 30 kilo metres East of the broadcast said the druse Tiamen stormed the Homes of the Lages few remaining christians and butchered about 40 elderly persons and children with including the towns Gergis it said Only one resident in the sporadic Rifle shots echoed in the streets As the its directory assistance computer terminals sit operator gets terminals turned off continued from Page 1 she said in an interview from her Home 1 i dont know How it began and it just seemed to keep increase i pulled my Headset but it was still pinned to i stood up and stepped finally i ripped the Headset Cord out and jumped Back and Shook for she adding the incident was Over she said she was in a state of Shock As its officials questioned her on what had happened and then called an ambulance to take her to where she was checked and she was then inter viewed by its safety officials and Given the Day Szunyog said she haunt thought about the computers posing a safety problem until while she says she is More concerned about them she said she know whether she would use them until she went to work this morn i dont feel too badly in apprehensive about but i dont know How apprehensive ill i might have to let somebody else plug in the Headset and take a few Calls but a spokesman for the communications workers of Cana said other workers Are upset by the there Are three preg Nant women working what happens if one of them gets a its spokesman Glenn Schneider said the Crown corporation knows three operators have received shocks while working on the equip ment since but a series of its tests failed to determine the about 32 operators on each of three shifts handle All directory assistance requests for Eastern including and Lon distance directory assistance requests from outside Schneider said the walkout reduced at Calls to the 411 directory assistance number yesterday Drew Busy he said its respects employees rights to refuse to work on the system until problems Are following the Szunyog 27 workers unplugged their equipment at for about 75 deciding to go Back to work Only after they received assurances they would meet with management to discuss the machines but by 3 no meeting had been arranged and workers slowly started refusing to work on the Termi in not going to sit around and wait until i get a Debbie one of the said shortly after deciding to refuse to work on the computerized Telephone workplace safey and health offi cer Ivan Sabesky said staff from his office began investigating the mat Ter yesterday it was not known How Long it will take for the department to Complete its report and make a Ray who Heads the depart ment charged with maintaining the computer said his staff has been trying to determine the cause of the shocks since the first weve done a variety of tests including recording the level of Power flowing through the outlets which service the computers and checking the headsets used by the operators and we cant find the he adding the manufacturer of the Northern has also been he said while some trouble can be caused by Static electricity due to the dry air and carpeting on the no one is sure that can be blamed for the shocks received by the its officials have decided to remove the carpeting As soon As As its has decided to try to isolate some of the Power outlets which service the trained army troops flushed out a few remaining rebellious militiamen from hideouts in residential the City was generally quiet a Day after troops with tank and artillery support moved through druse and shiite strongholds in House House residents were outdoors after a 24 hour taking Stock of the Striction caused by four Days of fight ing and heavy bombardment that left at least 94 including two marines five French and 42 lebanese at least 413 people were troops in tanks and armoured person Nel carriers were in full control of the cites Oceanside All intersections and Public shops were beginning to open and lines were forming in front of bakeries and Gas no trouble reported marines and civilians at the embassy overlooking the Mediterranean sea said they had no trouble during the and All was reported peace Ful at Beirut closed International air the base of the Marine contingent of the multinational peace keeping spokesmen for the British and italian contingents of the peace keeping Force also reported no new officials said the last of six electric Power Supply lines that feed the capital broke Down last and they warned the City would have prolonged daily Power repairs of the cites Crip pled water system also were under they privately owned radio stations said at least 12 tenants were believed buried in the rubble of a Western Beirut House that collapsed Early today from dam age suffered in bombardments yester called crucial test during yesterdays 18 civil ians and 21 lebanese soldiers were officials the army said it captured 50 including seven palestinians and four the state radio said the sweep was a a Nicias test of whether president Amin government was to be or not to there was also fighting yesterday 80 Kilometres to the North in where police said 25 people were killed and 60 wounded in fighting Between rival moslem militia israelis picking new pm continued from Page 1 the leadership race was set in motion tuesday when begin said he was resigning the Post he has held since he announced his decision to his Cabinet but gave his backers time to try to talk him out of his begin has delayed submitting his resignation to president Chaim her apparently to give his party time to pick a although Arens said begin did not indicate How Long he would postpone the begin and his Cabinet remain As a caretaker government until the new Herat Leader or labor party Leader Shimon Peres puts together a Coli Shamir said he ruts Central commit tee was being convened after eight Cabinet ministers of begins faction failed to decide on a candidate during two Days of intensive supporters of Shamir argued the longer the the greater the risk that the opposition labor party would lure away enough begin supporters to put together a majority and take Over the Shamir and Levy were Given equal chances by Israel television late we Den Day and Israel radio said sup porters of both candidates were campaigning in a frenzy last under the when begin submits his Herzog must ask the parliamentary faction considered most Likely to Muster a majority to form a governing his resignation also Means the Cabi net is considered to have crowds fight polish police continued from Page 1 Cognize that polish problems can be solved not by intimidation but Only on the basis of reconciliation with this proud and courageous he also said Solidarity challenged the whole might of a totalitarian Pap said reagans statement proved again that he is not going to give up interference in Poland inter Nal reagans statement showed his ignorance of contemporary polish his tory and polish political process and deviates from the Pap police Early today cordoned off the area around Anns Church in War saws old town Section and removed a Floral Cross used As a Solidarity rally ing the Cross was a memorial to the late polish Stefan card Ninal riot police charged about Soli Darity supporters marching through the Baltic port after mass at the Church of beating some of them and firing tear a number of marchers were arrested and and several people were a police official the most intense violence erupted in the Southern Industrial City of Nowa Huta where riot police blocked a March by about steel workers by firing tear Gas and spraying them with water the demonstrators retaliated with and police charged them with rubber Batons in a Street fight lasting More than two Western witnesses said at least 20 people were injured and Many arrest but figures were not in the southwestern City of police turned Back a crowd of Solidarity backers trying to March to a Union plaque at the main Streetcar the demonstrators then tried to gather at the grave of a worker killed during a protest a year More than steel and automobile factory workers marched without has Sles from 2 to 4 in but later police forced a crowd of marching toward the old town into Side several were hundreds of riot police were concentrated in downtown Warsaw through out the keeping 200 to 300 Solidarity supporters in the Church of Ann for several several thousan4 people milled around the nor Mally empty streets until late eve relatives of passengers on a korean airlines 747 weep on hearing it was Likely shot jetliner feared shot Down at least one Canadian aboard lost korean plane continued from Page 1 on a departmental spokesman were trying to verify the report and will be issuing a statement later in the a department spokesman a research economist with new Yor based Carr Hendrie was in route to Tokyo to being her first Shultz said the United states had called in the soviet charge affairs overnight to express our grave con Cern and to demand an explant he also said there is no evidence the soviets had warned the korean although he said the plane that fired the missile was close enough for a visual he also said As far As we could there was no communication be tween the Pentagon sources said the fighter that shot Down the South korean Jet liner was a the korean Boeing was bound from to South when it dropped off Japa Nese air control Pentagon sources said the japanese asked for help in searching for the plane and two patrol aircraft were sent aloft from Misawa air Force base in Japan and from Okinawa during the the Penta gon the jetliner was last heard from at i cd the mig23 is one of the soviet unions most advanced Jet it is armed with Airt air missiles code named by nato As aphid and the soviet fighter is capable of speeds in excess of More than Kilometres an hour and has a combat radius of up to Kilometres from its Home earlier this japans defence Agency reported that the soviet Union had stationed More than ten mig23s on Eto Rofu one of four former japanese islands occupied by the so Viet Union at the end of the second world this Island is about 240 Kilometres East of the northernmost japanese is land of the last time anything like this occurred was in when a South korean Boeing 707 in route to Seoul from Paris Over the pole with a refuelling Stop in Anchorage when it went off course and was fired on by soviet fighters and forced Down on a Frozen Lake in the soviet two passengers were reported kilted and two others seriously injured Iri that no North americans were aboard that at the the soviet Union said the surviving passengers and Crew would be three Days after the South korean plane was forced Down about 370 kilo metres South of Murmansk in the so Viet Arctic More than kilo metres off its course the soviets released 106 passengers and bodies of a japanese and a korean but detained the Pilot and navigator for soviet officials in Moscow said later that the jetliner trespassed in soviet airspace for More than two hours and ignored a variety of including tracer shells fired in front of at least one Shell hit the killing two of the passengers and wounding 13 two of them officials of korean airlines blamed Compass failure for what they called an accidental violation of soviet one soviet source at the time said that soviet radar stations had picked up the Airliner Over 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